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CHRONICLE, 
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"Azedarach ; and a tall Ixora coccinea 5 together with the 
“searlet-flowered ^ Gardoquia Hookeri; Clerodendron 
Squamatum ; the greeu-flowered Heath: (Eriea viridi- 
flora); and other plants, Another collection came from 
r. Hamp, gr. to I. Thorne, Esq., in which we re- 
marked a neat plant of Kalosanthes miniata, with eight 
heads of gay red and white blossoms ; a pretty Achi- 
Menes grandiflora; two Cleredendrons; aud Thy- 
‘Sanotus proliferus, the latter hardly in bloom. In the 
lurserymen’s Class, Mr. Fairbairn, of' Wandsworth- 
road, obtained a Gold Medal for a group composed of 
uchsias, Pelargoniums, Verbenas, aud. Caleeolarias, 
-together with a Polygala anda small Veronica speciosa. 
f groups of four specimen plants, Mr. Bruce obtained 
-a Ast prize for pretty plants of Leschenaultia formosa 
and Achimenes picta, together with Clerodendron squa- 
Matum aud Pimelea decussata, Mr. Roser was second 
With .Epacris grandiflora, Eriea Bergiana, Fuchsia 
Corymbiflora, and Nerium Oleander. Of single. spe- 
Cimens, ‘Messrs. Fairbairn, of Clapham, sent the 
Noble Erica metulieflora bicolor, formerly deseribed. 
Mr. Dawson, of Brixton-hill, Erica ampullacea, 23 feet 
n height and as much in width; and Mr. Bruce, Epi- 
Phyllum speciosum, 3 feet in height and about 2 feet 
‘Across, quite a mass of bloom. Mr. Hamp also sent a 
1e plant, not in bloom, of Veroniea speciosa. The 
best collection of Cape Heaths in the Amateur’s Class 
Was shown by Mr. Hamp, and in the Nurseryman’s 
ss Mr. Dawson also pro- 
Cla; 
duced 
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Yed flowered Broughtonia sanguinea.—T'wo good plants 
ue flowered Lobelia erinus grandiflora. Mr. Cuthill 
Showed Leianthus longifolius ; and Mr, Kay a small but 
800d Veronica speciosa ; and Mr. Stow, of Dulwich, the 
Pretty Campanula fragilis, Hoya carnosa, a large 
Fuchsia fulgens, and Achimenes longiflora. Mr. Wood, 
of Norwood, variegated plants, and an interesti l 
centre apricot; Princesse Marie, copper colour,very good; 
Though past their prime, the Pelargoniums much en- 
livened the exhibition, which in some points was scanty 
lowers, and devoid of interest. For eight Pelargo- 
niums in!2-inch pots, the large Silver Victoria Medal 
was-awarded to Mr. Coysh, whose plants were well 
bloomed, and in fine condition ; for eight varieties, in 
S-inch pots, the Ist prize was given to Mr. Foster, gr. 
to Mr. Staines ; and the 2d, io. Mv. Robinson, of Pim- 
lico...In the Nurserymen's Clas e lst prize was 
awarded to Mr. Gaines, who exhibited. 12 well-bloomed 
varieties; 2d, to Messrs: C. and D. Smith. This eollec- 
tion displayed anything but good management, the 
flowers beng small, and the foliage seanty, 
In Carnations and Picorses: an ext: rize was 
awarded to Mr. Norman, of Woolwich, for a Stand of 
24 Carnations, comprising the following flowers :— Wil- 
mer’s Conquering HerojHudson's Miss Barton, Puxley's 
Prince Albert, Calleot’s Brutus and Juba, Parson’s Sir 
G. Crewe, Smith's Lord Combermere, Taylor’s Lord 
Byron, Eason's Admiral Curson, Brooks’s Flora’s Gar- 
lund, Grange's Earl Grey, Hale's Prince Albert, Wil- 
mers Solander and Earl of Errol, Wildman’s Bona- 
parte, Shenning’s' Duke of Cumberland, Seedling, Ely's 
Regulator, Sir R. Hill, William. Caxton, and ‘Mungo, 
Manley’s Beauty of. Woodhouse, Lady of the Lake, and 
Kay's Omnium Primum. The Picotees were very fine, 
and extra prizes were awarded to Mr. Diekson, and to 
Mr. Norman, for their collections. The stand of the 
former contained the following 12 :—Gidden’s Sir R. 
Peel, Sharp's Agitator and L'Eiegant, Gidden's Teaser, 
Dickson’s Charles Stanford (a new and very fine 
flower), Sophia, and a Seedling, Mrs. Barnard, 
Prince of Wales, and Wilmer’s Princess Royal; 
and Mr, Norman exhibited Sir Geo. Cockburn, Brink- 
ler's Masterpiece, Lady Cl field, and Jamie Gar- 
dener ; Wilmer's Bride and Princess Royal, Norman’s 
Dick Lee, Sharp's Agitator, La Delicate, Gem, and Ne 
plus Ultra; Ely’s Emperor, Crask’s Prince Albert, 
Barraud's Lady Douro and Borderer, Burroughes's Duke 
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lection of Alpines. —Collections of cut Roses were pr - 
‘duced in excellent order, and formed perhaps the most 
attractive feature of the show. In the Amateur's Class 
© Ist prize was awarded to’ Mr. Parsons ; and in the 
Nuserymen s, to Messrs. Paul and Son. Of Summer 
Ses, in the latter group, a few of the best. wer 
TOVence : Crested, pale rose; Angers, dark glossy 
Cae, Moss: Alice Leroi, lilac beautifully eupped ; 
elina, fine shaded crimson ; Hélène Mauget, compact 
Sven rose ; Louise Cilet, glossy blush shaded, Damas 
Juke of Cambridge, large rosy purple; Louis XVL., 
‘vivid. crimson and purple; Pope, dark violet shaded 
With erimson, large. Alba: Etoile de la. Malmaison, 
pale flesh ; Félicité Parmentier, flesh, white margin ; 
& Séduisante, large rosy blush ; Madame Audot, flesh, 
finely cupped. -Gallica : Adéle Prevost, large silvery 
blush ; Belle Rosine, large rosy lilac; Boule de Nan- 
teuil, dark erimson purple ; Colonel Combes, crimson and 
Purple, very large ; Columella, rosy crimson, of. fine 
form 3 Donna Sol, rose spotted with white; very neat ; 
D Aguesseau,rich crimson, fine ; Duede Valmy, purplish 
Tose ; Eblouissante de Laqueue, crimson with scarlet 
entre, most brillisnt p Feu Brillante, vivid crimson, 
Scarlet petals very large and even ; Grain d'or, bright 
Crimson shaded with purple; Grandissima, crimson 
large and compact; Latour d'Auvergne, cherry 
Shaded, with purple, very large and fine; Billet 
Parfait, white with erimson stripes ; Pharericus, 
Swe of good form; Randolph, blush pink, fine; 
"Irpasse Tout, bright rosy crimson; Triomphe de 
mine; 
Roses» Bernar 
with 5; Bernard, 
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brilliant 
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Tes, rose 
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Pale yellow, Chinas : Antheros, blush, eentre rose 
yellow 3 ramoisie supérieure, velvety crimson ; 
éon," distinet rose ; Taneréde, dark rosy 
ae Tea-sceuted ; Silene, rose shaded with car- 
mne; - Bougere, ri 3 = "Devoniensi reamy 
white ti gere, rosy bronze; Devoniensis, creamy 
e, fine 
rimstone 
Marie de 3 Madame -Roussell, white, centre flesh ; 
nted with rose ; La Renommé, white, centre | 
of N and Mrs. Bevan’s Trip to Cambridge, 
Garrats Lady Douro, Kirtland’s Princess Augusta, 
Matthews’ Enchantress, Gidden's Ne plus Ultra, and Sir 
. Peel.—The Ptxks were indifferent, no doubt owing to 
the continuance of dry weather; for Amateurs, the lst 
prize was awarded to Mr. Hall, of Enfield ; 2d, Mr. 
Edwards, of Holloway ; 3d, Mr. Hale, of Hillingdon.— 
In the Nurserymen's Class, a prize was awarded to Mr. 
Henbrey, of Croydon.—F ucustaswere fine; Mr. Robinson, 
who obtained the Ist prize, produced’ his plants in fine 
condition, uninjured by carriage ; R. Dutton, Esq., 
Dulwich, had the 2d prize ; and in the Nurserymen’s 
Class, Messrs. Fairbairn received an extra prize. 
Of Frurr there was little. Mr. Chapman sent good 
Black Hamburgh Grapes; and bunches of the same 
variety, together with Queen. Pine-apples, were shown 
by Mr. Hamp. Other fruit consisted of Raspberries 
and Strawberries, some of the lutter fine-looking speci- 
mens. Cucumbers were shown by Messrs, Cuthill, 
Robins, and Fletcher. And of collections of Vegetables, 
the best was shown by Mr. Marti 
(rd Edition. 
"oombridge & Sons, Paternoster-row. 
Tus is.a well got-up book, and is a great improvement 
on the former editions, especially as regards the draw- 
ings and deseriptiou of: the hives. he author’ 
are similar to those of Nutt and other recen: w 
bees, with which, however. our experience is, in some 
instances, at variance. r instance, with the state- 
‘ment that“ the eggs to produee future queens are laid 
after those of common bees and drones.” The fact is, 
that the eggs of working bees.are laid, more or less, at 
all periods of the year. - Again, we'find “ithe cells soon 
become coated by the eoeoons from the brood to pro- 
duce healthy bees.’ Such is not the ease, colonies will 
continue to produce healthy swarms for many years ; 
nor are there different sorts of bees for different oceu- 
pations ; common bees are servants of “all work," 
whose habits are the same in common hives as in those 
of more novel construction ; from both they swarm, 
east out the young queens, and destroy their drones. 
nearly alike, according to the condition of the colon 
Again, our author quotes from Gelien “that bees 
search in the neighbourhood for a place where they may 
deposit their honey until the young shall have left the 
combs in whieh they were hatched.” The translator 
surely must have made some mi » here, into which 
so aecurate an observer as Gelien would hardly have 
fallen. As bees never fix their eombs.to the sides of the 
hive near the bottom, Mr. Taylor's plan of contracting 
alittle the lower part of deep ones would not prevent 
the comb from falling from the top, and his observation 
respeeting the «disposition of bees to work downwards 
in preference to climbing ” is not very clear. They 
are fond of ascending, therefore the entrances in com- 
mon hives.are in the right place. -The Nadir-hive is, 
of course, the same as the old plan of eking, and zine 
feeding pans are objectionable on account of their cold- 
ness. In fact, there is no better feeding-dish than a 
bit of old honey-comb. "The fact of Gelien’s enormous 
populated hive not decreasing so mùch in weight during 
winter as a weak one, might be more owing to the in- 
crease of weight from the early brood than from the real 
consumption of honey, Neither isthe charge against bees 
just, regarding their * want of prudence and foresight” 
in storing up more pollen than they want. If pollen 
was as valuable as honey, such a; thing would not: have 
Taylor 
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Medicis, rose, centre fawn ; Safrano, buff, | been thought of ; but, nevertheless, it is as essential to 
the prosperity of the colony as honey. Our author in- 
clines to the old notion respecting the larvee of wor 
bees being changed into queen bees by royal j 
observes, we believe with good feeling, * never kill 
bees.” Asmuch difference of opinion exists about this, 
andascoitagers still persist in it, whose returns, we know, 
often exceed that of the amateur, we shall endeavour te 
show the comparative,merit of the old and new system. 
Supposing H. and B. to begin to keep bees at one time ; 
H. furnished with a collateral hive, D. with a common 
one. H.’s colony ought not to swarm, but enter his 
side boxes and glass at top, unless it happens that they 
choose to follow their own natural way in spite of an 
impreved habitation. B.’s hive will have thrown off three 
swarms and thus quadrupled itself ; and though his hives 
be weaker than H.’s, still he will have the produce of 
four queens during the latter part of the season, wliile 
his neighbour will have only one. Both cbtain honey 
by their respective plans : B. selects the best caleulated 
of his four hives to stand the winter, and destroys the 
bees in the others, while H. removes his boxes and 
glass ; the weight of honey may be equal ; although H. 
may assert that his is all pure, supposing his bees 
entered the side boxes at the same time ghbour's 
bit 
th beno purer than B's. 
the previous spring, 
ference is that the 
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swarmed, his combs will in 
of provision for the winter. i 
may be thus met; he has destroyed three swarms or 
hives it is true, but his neighbour has also destroyed 
three queens, at teast prevented them from becoming 
useful and prolifie, and the boxes taken away most 
ikely coniained much brood, which shortly would have 
been of more uče than thrice their number of old bees ; 
for late hatched bees are the principal supporters of 
the colony the following season. . also destroyed 
much brood, especially in his strongest swarm, weak 
ones seldom containing much. Bs stock is the best 
after the honey is taken, from the greater part of the 
old bees leaving the hive. Supposing he kept the old 
stoek in the first swarm, of course the brood were not 
disturbed, and they will shortly make up the loss of 
bees destroyed. ‘Thus D. saves the food which the 
number of old bees would have eaten, while H., by his 
plan, is obliged to feed them, to die in a short season. 
Having thus placed the two systems in a fair point of 
view as to profit, I wish it to be understood that I most 
heartily concur in the now general feeling against the 
practice of destroying bees by suffocation, provided the 
means taken to deprive the industrious collect of 
their store be not injurious to them in the main.— iW. 
Coloured Illustrations of Br Garden Fruit, with 
Descriptive Letter-press. By H. L. Merer. Part I. 
4to. Longmans. 
Tue author does not inform us in what light he 
wishes this work to be regarded, and perhaps he was 
right, for it is equally beneath eritieism in relation to 
art, science, or literature. The first, part c ontains a 
Peach, said to be the Royal George, and a Pear said to 
be the Jargonelle, The representations are, we. pre- 
sume, taken from the ingenious imitations in stone bf 
Peaches and Pears, which one sees occasionally among 
the chimney ornaments of the poor 
E ir 
Savage Food.— The Bannaks, a related tribe’ to 
the Shoshonies, have almost nothing of the skilful 
horsema: ) of their cousins, but live the. most 
wretched life of any Indians in the West. They are 
generally designated Root-diggers and are very well 
described by Captain Bonneville. Oftentimes, when 
they can get neither game nor roots to live on, they eat 
grasshoppers, a sp s of Gryllus, very large and. fat, 
of every shade of brown and black, wi rewith: these 
deserts abound. For this purpose they are esught im 
large quantities. live without ceremony, and 
eaten like craw-fish. ; said that the soup of them 
is very sweet aud a favourite drink; even gentlemen of 
the Hon. Hudson Bay Company, who had been com- 
pelled to live on it, spoke to the same effect. In case 
of scarcity of such grasshoppers, the Pau make 
soup of a large species of ants, w. nich abounds towards 
the uppermost waters of the Arkan r,and further 
south in the Sierra de los Mimbrzs, Upper California, 
| and Texas.—Hovker’s Journal of Botany. 
On the Action of Soluble Protosalts of Iron on Vege- 
tation. By M. Gris.—According to the author, the 
soluble protosalts of iron, when they are absorbed by 
the roots or leaves of the plants, give rise to an increased 
production of chlorophylle, especially in chlorotic speci- 
mens, The author thence d the conclusion, tbat the 
action of the iron is identical in the vegetable and in 
the animal kingdom, and that the formation of chloro- 
phylle is not, a generally admitted, dependent on the 
action of light. The soluble protosalts of iron are also 
stated to further the growth, especially of pot plants.— 
Comptes Rendus, xxi. p. 1386. 
Calendar of Operations. 
(For the ensuiug Week.) 
Winter Crops.— We have had most abundant rains 
here for the last !2 hours, and. as there is some proba- 
bility of such being general, I cannot do better than 
urge the importance of attending in a most special way 
forthwith to those crops of the kitchen garden which 
must constitute the chief supply for the ensuing winter, 
